Even more important, Leonhardt publicly declared that he doesn't quote enough women in his weekly New York Times column. After making a concerted effort to cite more women in his daily email newsletter, he now includes 40% women writers. His weekly New York Times column, however? It turned out to be a totally different story. Leonhardt discovered that only 20% of people cited in the column each week are women, so he is speaking out:

If a discussion of, say, economics or politics that’s dominated by one gender seems a little strange to you, then you should feel deeply uncomfortable with the actual public dialogue on those subjects. Once you start paying attention, you can’t help but notice how shockingly male it is.

And he has gone a step further and created a great resource by making available Twitter feeds of women experts in several typically male-dominated fields.

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